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# Crazy Presidents
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/4520/
- Published: 2006-05-09T10:24:33.000Z
- Updated: 2006-05-09T10:24:33.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: History, #wpChunk

A new study says that almost half of the first 37 presidents (GW to Nixon) of the United States may have suffered from mental illness. [Subscriber-only link](http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200606/primary-sources?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). The psychiatric methods employed are questionable, but the Duke University study released it anyway. Guess what? Nixon had a problem, as did all three presidents of the 1920s, but Kennedy and FDR didn't. The study supposedly concentrated on biographical material, but I suspect it also took into account policy decisions while in office (read into that whatever you want).

![crazypresidents.gif](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/crazypresidents.gif)